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> The graphical operating system that could have been for the IBM XT Visi On[1] was a graphical operating system for the IBM PC that actually existed as a commercial product, thoug…

What's your better suggestion? Dallasonian? Dallaser? Dallasan? Also, do you have the same issue with the demonyms Manhattanite or Seattleite?

It ends in 2028: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/uber-and-waymo-to-end-exclus...

When you're the paying customer, it's possible (but not guaranteed) that they could see privacy as product differentiation. In other words, if company A and B both offer you a prod…

I think the safety officer meant that white paint prevents the rail from heating up. The heating of rails contributes to problems with derailment. If the heat isn't a contributor, …

[Replying to myself...] Oops, I got one wrong. Copyright("©"): compose + "c" + "o". The one I had is bigger: Ⓒ vs. ©.

It's pretty easy on Linux with the compose key. To get "≠", you just hit compose, then "/", then "=". That's actually the same number of keystrokes as "!=" (since "!" requires the …

So does BASIC. It might even be the first, although it's hard to be sure. BASIC[1] came out in 1964, and Pascal[2] came out in 1970. --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth…

And assuming the crypto algorithm has no fundamental flaws, it's applied correctly, and the software implementation has no bugs. All of which are things people have on occasion bel…

If the competitive risk is real, then are choosing between supplier risk (AI model access) and competitive risk. When there isn't a zero-risk option, the question becomes which ris…

A bank card is a type of card. Credit cards and debit cards are both bank cards. Prepaid cards are another type. With any type of bank card, there's a bank that guarantees to a mer…

I'm no expert on cameras, but this seems to explain it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-tube_television_camera This says the main reason for four-tube is image registration. Bas…

Seems like if Lore wants to reduce space usage, they could apply something like Git's delta compression (as used in packfiles) to the chunks. Suppose you make a 1 kB change in a 50…

> Three decades later, with the release of macOS 26.5, Apple caught up: you can finally set your Mac to 'Always' boot whenever power is restored, regardless of how it was shut down…

If we're in a simulation, we are AI. But someone could be studying what happens when AI makes its own AI.

It's a minor perk for sure. From their perspective, it probably costs essentially nothing, so why not. But I can see it being useful if they're expanding to a nearby city. Waymo is…

Because quicksort is like a worst case scenario for branch prediction. Branch prediction works when the CPU can detect some kind of pattern in the program behavior, like if the bra…

OK, you bring up a very good point. If the eggs fail to hatch because they are never fertilized, then the mosquitoes are not acting as a vector because they do not transmit the dis…

The symmetry is amusing. This is really fighting fire with fire. Mosquitoes are a vector that spreads disease-causing germs to a population. The proposed solution is to use differe…

Also, cleaning kitchens is a huge part of the job. Hotel rooms either have no kitchen or a very minimal one. You're not going to learn how to clean an oven or load a dishwasher in …

Maybe I'm weird, but I believe in the theory that (all else equal) it's good for business to minimize how much your users hate your product/service. In other words, users dislike t…

Also, some very old computers had 36-bit words. Word sizes on modern computers are virtually always powers of 2, but it hasn't always been that way. And octal is more convenient fo…

Have a rod that pivots in its center and has objects of equal mass at each end, like a balanced seesaw. But make one of the objects very low density (less than water) and other hig…

Waymos are fleet vehicles. Recalls go to the owners, just like with other fleet vehicles such as rental cars, taxis, limos, delivery services, utilities, and city/state/federal gov…

The article mentions this: "A few years back, Linux added a way for software to wait on several events at once, which is something Windows had built in for decades, but Linux didn'…